[MlMt] Trouble connecting to iCloud (certificate validation)

[Alexandre Takacs]

Dear all,

> Based on another report and a quick experiment I think the problem is 
> that MailMate does not handle port 465 very well. This is a known 
> issue I've ignored for quite a while. Port 465 is a non-standardized 
> port used by some email providers (but not in quite the same way which 
> is why MailMate some times fails to handle it well). I'll note to 
> improve this.

FWIW I've solved that issue (SSL failures) by actually stopping to pin 
down SSL to port 465 in the SMTP settings (i.e. uncheck "port:" 
setting).

I was seeing these errors with various providers unrelated to iCloud.

As matter of curiosity why would the SMTP code be port dependent ??

-alexT